SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
UNIVERSITY of OTAGO LIBRARY
University of Otago Central Library
After all, human beings come and go, while books remain forever.
Amos Oz, Chechov [Chekhov] in Hebrew, in New Yorker, 25 December 1995.
From the University Librarian
T
he University of Otago Library
holds significant special collections
as national taonga that enrich New
Zealand’s heritage and research holdings.
All the collections are available for
consultation in person at the various
libraries in Dunedin, Christchurch
and Wellington, with details of many
items available on the University of
Otago Library’s website. The de Beer
Gallery in the Central Library and the
Hocken Library offer regular exhibitions
throughout the year. To enhance worldwide outreach, Special Collections
exhibitions are hosted on-line. The
diversity of these collections reflect the
diversity of their generous donors.
These collections have come to the
University of Otago’s Library through
bequests, public donations, and as
gifts from families, public bodies and
individuals. Acquisitions obtained
through Trust funds or the interest
from funds held in trust, or gifts from
the University, University staff and the
wider community all continue to enrich
these holdings. The descriptions below
elaborate further on each collection’s
history.
We are proud to be able to house and
display these collections in appropriate
physical environments with climate
control and conservation lighting,
in spaces that complement the value
of the works: the Central Library’s
“gallery” in the contemporary iconic
Information Services Building, and the
Hocken Library in an art deco building
on Anzac Avenue. We are privileged
to provide quality guardianship, to
be the kaitiaki. Library staff (be they
cataloguers, curators or binders) pool
their skills willingly in partnership with
the academic community to preserve and
interpret these items, and the University
is delighted to support such work.
Welcome to the very special collections
of the University of Otago libraries.
Sue Pharo
University Librarian
A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and
treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644.
(We) always thought of Dunedin as our ‘home’, our essential background, and have
wanted to do what we could towards the furtherance of its learning and culture.
Esmond de Beer, writing for his sisters and himself.
The de Beer Collection
T
he de Beer Collection, comprising
seven thousand volumes, is the
Library’s principal repository for pre1800 material and showcases aspects of
European civilization and culture from the
Renaissance to the end of the 18th century.
It enjoys national importance as a research
resource and has international standing
in its areas of strength in 17th-century
English history, politics and philosophy;
18th-century poetry; travel and guide
books; and the history of horticulture.
Foreign language works in Italian, French
and German also feature.
Willi Fels
In 1946 Willi Fels, notable Dunedin
collector and uncle to Dora, Mary
and Esmond de Beer, gave the Library
four hundred of his most valuable
pre-1801 books, including illuminated
manuscripts, incunabula and many
German and Italian imprints. This gift
formed the nucleus of what was to
become the de Beer Collection.
Dora, Mary and Esmond de
Beer
Born in Dunedin but living most of their
lives in London, Dora, Mary and Esmond
de Beer took a benevolent interest in the
cultural life of Dunedin. Their generosity
to the University of Otago Library
extended to substantial gifts of rare books
as well as a handsome financial bequest.
The de Beer Fund continues to provide
for the development and promotion of
the rare book collection. In recognition
of their special role in its foundation and
ongoing development, the collection is
named after them.
Near the entrance to the de Beer Gallery
is the portrait bronze of Esmond de Beer
by the eminent New Zealand sculptor
Anthony Stones, commissioned in 1983
by the University of Otago.
Iolo Williams collection
“one man’s gatherings of lesser poets”
Esmond de Beer of his friend’s collections.
Letter 4/3/1958
In 1958, the de Beers purchased from
Iolo Williams his extensive working
collection of minor 18th-century verse
and presented it to the University
Library. Through his poetry anthologies
and articles in publications such as
the London Mercury and the Observer,
Iolo Williams played an important
role in the revival of interest in 18thcentury literature and the popularity of
miscellanies of “poems written on several
occasions”.
Evelyn collection
In 1983, Esmond de Beer, whose definitive edition of The Diary of John Evelyn was
published in 1955, donated one thousand works acquired in the course of his research
on Evelyn. The original collection, together with subsequent purchases, has resulted in
an impressive collection of early works on gardens and horticulture.
Included with the Evelyn collection are six hundred travel and guide books dating from
the 16th to the 18th century. The majority are of Italy and Rome.
John Evelyn
Silva
York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, 1776.
Locke collection
In 1984, Esmond de Beer donated a collection of books built up while editing The
Correspondence of John Locke. This included more than three hundred pre-1801
imprints on politics, philosophy, education and economics as well as more then
two hundred related items printed after 1801. Many of the works by Locke and his
contemporaries are rare first editions.
In addition to these specialized collections, de Beer donated many fine and rare
volumes from his personal library on topics such as European architecture (particularly
Roman antiquities and baroque Rome), and the history and politics of 17th-century
England, as well as volumes of English play-scripts and Italian poetry.
He also paid for the Library’s subscription to the General Catalogue of the British
Museum Library and was unfailingly generous in providing financial contributions
when major publications were acquired in support of his particular areas of interest.
Robert Adam,
Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian
London: For the Author, 1764.
There is no virtue I can see in having no education; it is not more natural to be
uncultivated; it means simply that a man’s talents have not been put to use, that he has not
been given a fair chance to use his innate abilities
Charles Brasch, The Universal Dance, 1981.
The Charles Brasch Collection
T
his collection of seven thousand titles
comprises the personal library of
Charles Orwell Brasch (1909-73), New
Zealand poet and cousin to the de Beers.
Brasch spent many years abroad and,
on his return to New Zealand, founded
the highly-respected quarterly journal
Landfall and acted as editor for its first
twenty years. He was also a most generous
benefactor of the arts.
Although Brasch’s library reflects his
diverse interests, the emphasis is on
literature, art, history and religion. It is
particularly rich in 20th-century poetry
and New Zealand literature, with many of
the latter presentation or signed copies by
well-known New Zealand writers such as
Janet Frame, Frank Sargeson, and James
K. Baxter. Overseas strengths include
works by Robert Graves, W. B. Yeats, Eric
Gill, Rainer Maria Rilke, and modern
20th century artists. The Brasch Library
also contains a sizeable collection of
ephemeral pamphlets.
Brasch also gifted to the University
Library twelve of the wonderfully
atmospheric etchings by Giovanni
Battista Piranesi from the series Vedute di
Roma and Antichita Romane. A changing
selection is on display in the Charles
Brasch Court.
A portrait of him by Evelyn Page and
a bust by Paul Beadle may also be seen
there.
Charles Brasch
Collected Poems
Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984.
James K. Baxter,
A small ode on mixed flatting, Elicited by the
decision of the Otago University authorities to
forbid this practice among students.
[Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1967]
Reproduced with the kind permission of
James K. Baxter Trust
Homer on parchment pages! The Iliad and all the adventures of Ulysses, foe of Priam’s
kingdom! All locked within a piece of skin folded into several little sheets
Martial A.D. c.40-c.104. Epigrammata, tr. A. C. A. Ker.
The Shoults Collection
C
anon William Arderne Shoults, scholar-clergyman, died in London in 1887. The
following year, Bishop Samuel Tarratt Nevill, first Anglican Bishop of Dunedin,
persuaded his widow to send his fine library to New Zealand to form the nucleus of
a library for Selwyn College, Dunedin. In 1965 the Shoults Collection was placed on
permanent loan with the University of Otago Library by the Board of Selwyn College.
The collection of about four thousand volumes, the majority of them pre-1801 imprints,
is rich in history and theology and includes fine examples of Greek and Roman classics
by early printers such as Aldus Manutius, Robert Estienne and Christopher Plantin.
Science, travel and Middle Eastern languages are also well represented.
Among the twenty-seven incunabula (pre-1501 printed books) in the collection is a
handsome single volume of the Bible gloss of Nicholas de Lyra (1481), with a Rood
and Hunt blind-stamped binding reinforced with fragments of indulgences printed by
William Caxton, England’s first printer. It is the oldest known English binding in New
Zealand. The Shoults Collection also includes a small manuscript collection. One (MS
13: Book of Morals, in three parts) quite possibly contains the oldest paper in New
Zealand, with watermarks identified as used at fifteen different places between 1353 and
1391 A.D.
European Magazine,
September, 1784.
Works of art speak not only to us in the moment as we are now but speak – as a sound
will make a string resonate – to the stream of human history and experience embodied
in the consciousness of each one of us
Charles Brasch, The Universal Dance, 1981.
Post – 1800 Stack Collection
T
his collection comprises over 3,500
books which are rare, valuable or
fragile. It includes works transferred
from general stack as well as books that
complement the older materials in the
de Beer and Shoults Collections. Special
Collections Stack includes modern
commentaries and works on or about John
Evelyn and John Locke, costly facsimiles,
guidebooks, and limited edition and
private press publications, such as New
Zealand’s Caxton Press, The Pear Tree
Press, and Alan Loney’s Electio Editions.
Among the 20th century literary works
there is a large collection of works by the
English poet Robert Graves. There are
also works by Graves’s contemporaries
such as W.H. Auden, E. M. Forster, D.H.
Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon and Stephen
Spender. New publications from the 21st
century also feature. Illustrative works
(engravings, woodcuts) include works by
the New Zealand-born John Buckland
Wright, Eric Gill, and Robert Gibbings.
Sir Thomas Malory,
The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur
Designs by Aubrey Beardsley.
London : Dent, 1893.
Colin McCahon,
A waterfall theme and variation, 1966.
Dedicated to Mary de Beer.
The Hogg Collection
S
ome 100 volumes associated with
James Hogg, (1770-1835), the
Scottish poet known as the Ettrick
Shepherd. Many of the titles were part
of Hogg’s own library, presented to the
University by Hogg’s descendants, the
Gilkison family of Dunedin. There are
also some original manuscript materials.
The McGlashan Collection
A
prominent Otago politician, churchman, lawyer and educationalist, John
McGlashan (1802-64) emigrated to Otago from Edinburgh in 1853. This
collection of one hundred volumes from his library was presented by the Board of John
McGlashan College in 1945. It contains books of law (some written by McGlashan
while a solicitor in Scotland), religion and philosophy as well as recreational titles such
as an illustrated text on deer-hunting.
Lufra. Bred by George Cupples Esq.
George Cupples,
Scotch Deer-Hounds and their Masters
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1894.
Dedicated to Robert Burns Esq.
of Dunedin, New Zealand.
McGlashan Collection.
The Mellor Collection
T
he Mellor collection contains
reprints of articles, manuscripts
and books from the library of Joseph
William Mellor (1869-1938), the eminent
chemist and pioneer in clay technology.
A graduate of the University of Otago,
he spent most of his professional life
associated with the ceramic industries
in Stoke-on-Trent. The collection
includes his copy of the 1912 edition of
his Modern Inorganic Chemistry which
contains copious notes for inclusion
in the next edition. The collection also
contains personal photographs, and
examples of Mellor’s own drawings and
sketches.
Pavlova smash
Joseph William Mellor,
Uncle Joe’s Nonsense
London : for the Ceramic Society by
Longmans, Green, 1934.
Mellor Collection.
‘She was curled up on the divan in my apartment…and she wasn’t my aunt,
grandmother, or a visiting fireman. She was Lulu, the cutest, hottest belly-dancer
this side of Farouk…’
Marc Brody, The Bride wore black, 1957.
Pulp Fiction Collection
T
he Pulp Fiction Collection comprises
850 titles, mainly published in
Australia by Sydney-based publishers
as a result of a publishing embargo on
the US based ‘pulps’ before and during
the Second World War. This collection
complements the more traditional rare
books held in Special Collections and
features detective, westerns, science
fiction, sports and romance novels.
Representative authors in this field of
popular culture include ‘Larry Kent’,
Marc Brody, and Carter Brown. The
collection was purchased from a collector
in Australia in 2005.
Carter Brown
The jade-eyed jinx
London: Horwitz, 1963.
Bibliography Room Archive
D
ue to the efforts of Dr Keith Maslen,
two samples of every item (books,
posters, ephemeral works) hand-printed
on the presses since 1961 are kept in the
Bibliography Room Archive. Sample
printings from the English Department’s
bibliographical course are also archived.
The Printer in Residence programme,
initiated in 2003, produces works that
are added to the Archive. In 2005, the
Bibliography Room imprint was changed
to Otakou Press.
Wooden Type.
Otakou Press Room.
Digital Collections
S
pecial collections online exist primarily for the e-exhibitions mounted by Special
Collections. A number have been generated by reader requests. The link to
exhibitions is: http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/exhibitions.html
In addition, the University of Otago Library Digital Collections database (http://digital.
otago.ac.nz/ ) was launched in 2007. This site allows users to access image and text
representations of selected material from the University of Otago Special Collections
and other collections including more than 1100 images of items from the Hocken
Collections.
A desire, then, to, in some measure do something for the people among whom I have so
long sojourned … has been the actuating motive in the formation of this collection…
Dr T.M. Hocken, Letter read at the opening of the Hocken Library, 31 March 1910.
The Hocken Collections
John Wallis Barnicoat,
Mr Tuckett’s House, Nelson
November 9 1843,
pencil & gum arabic on paper,
103 x 203 mm, 94/261,
Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Häkena,
University of Otago.
D
r Thomas Morland Hocken
(1836-1910) was one of Dunedin’s
best-loved figures. A doctor, and coroner
for twenty-two years, he was also a
passionate collector of material relating
to New Zealand and the Pacific. In
1907 he gave his private collection to
the University of Otago in trust for the
people of New Zealand. It was opened to
the public in 1910.
This collection formed the foundation
of Hocken Collections, which is now
the largest institution of its kind outside
Crown ownership in New Zealand,
and is unparalleled by any university
within Australasia. Its rich resources of
publications, archives and manuscripts,
maps, music, photographs, paintings,
drawings and prints draw researchers
from around the world. Dr Hocken
would be astounded that what he began
as a labour of love now stands as one of
the nation’s greatest heritage repositories
for the study of New Zealand and the
Pacific. It is the most comprehensive
holding of material relating to southern
New Zealand.
Hocken’s published collections are
accessible through the Voyager catalogue
on the University of Otago Library’s
website (http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/
index.php) and archives and manuscripts
are documented on Hakena (http://
hakena.otago.ac.nz/nreq/Welcome.html.
Further details on this rich and varied
resource can be found in Kā Taoka
Hākena: Treasures from the Hocken
Collections, edited by Stuart Strachan and
Linda Tyler, and published by the Otago
University Press in 2007.
Law Library Collections
E
xtensive historical donations of
law reports, legislation, journals
and monographs have been received
from the Otago District Law Society
and old-established Otago law firms,
particularly Adams Bros and Sievwright,
James, Nichol and Stark. While some
have been integrated into the general
collection, the pre-1801 items have been
incorporated into the de Beer Collection
and the 19th-century material has mostly
been placed in storage. Significant legal
items include early law report series and
accounts of famous trials of the 17th and
18th centuries.
Many early Otago legal identities are
represented by books which bear marks
of their ownership.
The Law Library has a number of
‘cartoons’ of English and New Zealand
judges on its walls, as well as photographs
of local historical interest.
Trial by jury
Gilbert A.A. Beckett,
The Comic Blackstone.
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1887.
Medical & Dental Library Collections
Monro Collection
Other Collections
Canterbury Medical Library
From 1720 to 1846 the Chair of Anatomy
at Edinburgh University was held
consecutively by the dynasty of Alexander
Monro, father (primus), son (secundus),
and grandson (tertius). Their library
includes about four hundred volumes
of early printed editions of ancient and
classical texts (such as works by Galen,
Hippocrates and Vesalius), contemporary
texts, and their own published works
including sixty manuscripts. It is the most
important of the special collections held by
the Medical Library.
These include the manuscripts of John
Money, New Zealand-born Director of
the Psychohormonal Research Unit at
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland,
USA, the papers of Sir Charles Hercus,
Dean of the Otago Medical School
from 1937-58, and the books from
the library of Sir Truby King, Medical
Superintendent of Seacliff Mental
Hospital near Dunedin and the driving
force behind the development of the
Plunket Society and Karitane hospitals
for the care of mothers and babies in
New Zealand.
The Cotter Medical History Trust
Collection is associated with the
Christchurch School of Health Sciences
and the Canterbury Medical Library. The
Collection contains the Stephen Clark
Collection of antique microscopes, 500
records of early doctors, numerous pre1900 medical books, and a wide range of
medical equipment.
Medical Historical Collection
This is a significant collection of medical
monographs from the 17th to the 19th
centuries, including major medical and
surgical texts, anatomical atlases and
contemporary material on diseases such as
plague, yellow fever and malaria. Original
works are supplemented by some facsimile
editions, including Anatomical Studies by
Leonardo da Vinci.
Preventive Medicine
Dissertations
An invaluable primary source of New
Zealand medical and social history, this
collection comprises more than three
thousand public health projects written by
fifth-year medical students from the 1920s
to the late 1970s. Topics range from studies
on current health issues, such as asthma,
to health surveys of various occupational
groups and of New Zealand towns and
Māori pa.
Dental Historical Collection
This is a small collection of late 19thcentury monographs and journals,
including the publications of Henry
Percy Pickerill (1879-1956), first Dean of
the Dental School.
Wellington Medical Library
Collections
The Wellington Medical Library contains
a Historic Collection of approximately
200 journals and monographs spanning
the 19th to mid-20th centuries, and
the Medlicott Collection, named after
Professor Reginald Medlicott, a leading
figure in psychiatry in New Zealand and
Australia. While most of the posters,
paintings, court records, and archival
material from this collection have been
transferred to the Hocken, Medlicott’s
books – mainly psychiatric – remain at
the Wellington Medical Library.
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum
[Leiden]: J & H Verbeek, 1747.
Medical Monro A2.
Significant donations of scientific material have been received from many sources.
Most have been integrated into the general collections.
Science Library Collections
Expedition Reports
Collection
This collection of scientific expedition
reports dating from the 19th and early
20th centuries has a special strength
in Antarctic material. Many famous
research expeditions are represented,
such as the Dumont D’Urville’s South
Pacific voyage on the Astrolabe in the
1820s, the Challenger oceanographic
expedition of 1873-6, and Robert F.
Scott’s National Antarctic Expedition
of 1901-4. Although the collection’s
emphasis is on zoology, botany and
geology, it contains items of interest to
scientists from all disciplines.
The Otago Institute
In 1934 the Library of the Otago
Institute, at that time housed in the
Otago Museum, was transferred to the
University Library.
This substantial collection includes
historic journals as well as many rare
items in subjects such as anthropology,
botany and zoology.
Other donations
Generous donations from eminent
scientists and University of Otago
academics such as Sir William Blaxland
Benham (Professor of Zoology),
Professor James Park, (Director of
the Otago School of Mines), and Sir
James Hector have further enriched the
holdings of the Library. More recent
donations from Sir Charles Fleming and
R. B. Sibson have added to the Library’s
strength in ornithological material.
The Naturalists Library. Ornithology, Vol. XII
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1842.
Exhibitions
Special Collections,
Central University library
Each year four quarterly exhibitions are
mounted in the de Beer Gallery, Special
Collections, 1st floor, Central Library.
Opening hours are 8.30 to 5.00 and
all are welcome to view them. On-line
versions of all the Special Collections
exhibitions held since 2002 can be
accessed through the Special Collections
exhibitions web page, link:
http://library.otago.ac.nz/index.php
Education Library
The Bill Robertson Library (Education
Library) displays, as a permanent
exhibition, a collection of work by New
Zealand children’s book illustrators.
Artists from the Otago region and former
Writers in Residence at the University of
Otago College of Education feature in the
collection. These artworks are part of the
University of Otago College of Education
Art Collection.
Hocken Collections
Hocken Collections has a constantly
changing exhibition programme. The
exhibition programme can be accessed
through the Hocken Collections
exhibitions web page:
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/hocken/
exhibitions/index.html
John Buckland Wright poster
41 Stunning books poster
‘Type comes in fonts & lives in cases. It needs your help to go home.’
Otakou
Press Room
Three of the four printing presses owned
by the Library are in the Otakou Press
Room, formerly the Bibliography Room.
They are the Columbian or “Eagle” press,
made by Thomas Long of Edinburgh in
1817, and first used, as early as 1863, in
Dunedin by Henry Wise, the maker of
the directories; the Albion press, made
by Hopkinson of London in 1845, and
most likely was the first press used in
Otago when Henry B. Graham printed
the prospectus for the Otago News on
24 November 1848; and a Vandercook
#4 proofing press, on long-term loan
from Dr John Holmes. The fourth press
– a Phoenix “platen press” – made by
Schelter & Geisecke of Leipzig, was once
owned by Crown Print, Dunedin. It is
housed at Leith Street storage.
The presses have been operating in
the University Library since 1961. To
complement the type machines, an
etching press built by local marine
engineer Alistair Maxwell was purchased
in 2005.
Monitoring of the Otakou Press Room
is shared by the Special Collections
Librarian, and the English Department.
The Printer
in Residence Programme
The Printer in Residence programme
was initiated in 2003 to encourage an
awareness of the facilities in the Library,
and to foster book-making within the
University environment and in the
wider arts community. Each year a
master-printer is employed to produce
a limited edition publication, and
on most occasions, an artist, usually
local, is tasked to provide images that
complement the text. The Programme
usually runs for about four weeks over
August of each year. Further details can
be read at:
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/
SpecialCollections/printers.html#intro
‘Eagle’ Printing press.
Typo – Tara McLeod, The Pear Tree
Press, Auckland.
Relevant Publications
Brasch, Charles
Indirections: a memoir 1909 – 1947.
Wellington [N.Z.]: New York; Oxford
University Press, c1980.
Kerr, Donald (editor)
Enduring Legacy: Charles Brasch, patron,
poet & collector.
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, in
association with University of Otago
Library, 2003.
Kerr, Donald,
Esmond de Beer: Portrait of a Bibliophile
XXXIX. In The Book Collector (London),
Vol. 56, no. 3, autumn 2007.
McCormick, E. H.,
The Fascinating Folly: Dr Hocken and his
Fellow Collectors.
Dunedin: University of Otago Press,
1961.
Manion, Margaret, Vera Vines, and
Christopher de Hamel,
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in
New Zealand Collections.
Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
Simmons, John Simon Gabriel,
Esmond Samuel de Beer, 1895 – 1990.
[Oxford, England: British Academy,
c1997]
Simmons, John Simon Gabriel,
Esmond Samuel de Beer, 1895 – 1999:
Obituary Notices and Bibliography.
Oxford [England]: J.S.G. Simmons,
c1990.
Strachan, Michael,
Esmond de Beer (1895 – 1900): Scholar
and Benefactor. A Personal Memoir …
with a Bibliography by J. S. G. Simmons.
Norwich [England]: Michael Russell,
1995.
Strachan, Stuart, and Linda Tyler
(editors),
Kā Taoka Hākena: Treasures from the
Hocken Collections.
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2007.
Taylor, Douglass W.
The Monro Collection in the Medical
Library of the University of Otago : A
Descriptive Catalogue with Annotations
and Introduction. Dunedin: University of
Otago Press, 1979.
http://library.otago.ac.nz/index.php
Information/Enquiries
Special Collections, Central
Library
Medical and Dental Special
Collections
Special Collections Librarian
University of Otago Central Library,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-8330
Fax: 64 3 479-8327
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Health Sciences Librarian
University of Otago,
P O Box 913,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 379-7404
Fax: 64 3 479-5099
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Hocken Collections
Science Library
The Hocken Librarian
University of Otago,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-8868
Fax: 64 3 479-5078
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Science Librarian
University of Otago,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-7486
Fax: 64 3 479-8553
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Law Library
Law Librarian
University of Otago,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-8837
Fax: 64 3 479-5070
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Bill Robertson Education Library
The Bill Robertson Librarian
University of Otago,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-3806
Fax: 64 3 479-4298
Email: ask.library@otago.ac.nz
Printing Presses
About the Otakou Press Room and/or printing:
Special Collections Librarian
Tel: 64 3 479-8330
Email: donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz
Dr Shef Rogers,
English Department
University of Otago,
P O Box 56,
Dunedin 9054,
New Zealand
Tel: 64 3 479-8892
Fax: 64 3 479-8558
Email: english@otago.ac.nz or
shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz
The Palazzo di Monte Citorio, 1752.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
from the series Verdute di Roma.